Opening 'grouped' taskbar entry?

Twayne wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Twayne" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open
they are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example
'18 Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their
currently defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled)
please? Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

Looks like no one knows. I don't either, but I can suggest an
alternative. Try Mozilla's FireFox 3 web browser. It uses tabs,
you can save a group of links at once, and go back later and open
all the links listed in a; group. If IE can do it, I've never
figured out how.


Thanks Twayne, but I don't know why you think FF can do it?

Not sure why you'd phrase a question like that; have you had trouble
with it?

snip

I suspect because the question was about folders in Windows Explorer, not
web browsers. Try opening a local folder in IE and up pops Windows Explorer.
Does the same happen with Firefox?

Twayne wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Twayne" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open
they are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example
'18 Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their
currently defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled)
please? Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

Looks like no one knows. I don't either, but I can suggest an
alternative. Try Mozilla's FireFox 3 web browser. It uses tabs,
you can save a group of links at once, and go back later and open
all the links listed in a; group. If IE can do it, I've never
figured out how.


Thanks Twayne, but I don't know why you think FF can do it?

Not sure why you'd phrase a question like that; have you had trouble
with it?

snip

I suspect because the question was about folders in Windows Explorer, not
web browsers. Try opening a local folder in IE and up pops Windows Explorer.
Does the same happen with Firefox?

"Olórin" wrote:

Twayne wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Twayne" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open
they are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example
'18 Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their
currently defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled)
please? Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

Looks like no one knows. I don't either, but I can suggest an
alternative. Try Mozilla's FireFox 3 web browser. It uses tabs,
you can save a group of links at once, and go back later and open
all the links listed in a; group. If IE can do it, I've never
figured out how.


Thanks Twayne, but I don't know why you think FF can do it?

Not sure why you'd phrase a question like that; have you had trouble
with it?

snip

I suspect because the question was about folders in Windows Explorer, not
web browsers. Try opening a local folder in IE and up pops Windows Explorer.
Does the same happen with Firefox?


Yes, it does, but a web browser is just not in the running as a
serious practical alternative to Explorer IMO. You can view a folder's
contents and you can open a file by d-clicking, but that's about it.
No deletion. No drag'n drop for copying/moving. No extensive
right-click context menu. No sorting, no viewing in different modes,
including thumbnails...etc

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

"Olórin" wrote:

Twayne wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Twayne" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open
they are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example
'18 Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their
currently defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled)
please? Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

Looks like no one knows. I don't either, but I can suggest an
alternative. Try Mozilla's FireFox 3 web browser. It uses tabs,
you can save a group of links at once, and go back later and open
all the links listed in a; group. If IE can do it, I've never
figured out how.


Thanks Twayne, but I don't know why you think FF can do it?

Not sure why you'd phrase a question like that; have you had trouble
with it?

snip

I suspect because the question was about folders in Windows Explorer, not
web browsers. Try opening a local folder in IE and up pops Windows Explorer.
Does the same happen with Firefox?


Yes, it does, but a web browser is just not in the running as a
serious practical alternative to Explorer IMO. You can view a folder's
contents and you can open a file by d-clicking, but that's about it.
No deletion. No drag'n drop for copying/moving. No extensive
right-click context menu. No sorting, no viewing in different modes,
including thumbnails...etc

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Olórin wrote:
Twayne wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Twayne" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open
they are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example
'18 Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their
currently defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled)
please? Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

Looks like no one knows. I don't either, but I can suggest an
alternative. Try Mozilla's FireFox 3 web browser. It uses tabs,
you can save a group of links at once, and go back later and open
all the links listed in a; group. If IE can do it, I've never
figured out how.


Thanks Twayne, but I don't know why you think FF can do it?

Not sure why you'd phrase a question like that; have you had trouble
with it?

snip

I suspect because the question was about folders in Windows Explorer,
not web browsers. Try opening a local folder in IE and up pops
Windows Explorer. Does the same happen with Firefox?

Ah, yes, you are quite right. Got a brain twist there I guess. No
wonder it sounded like I was confusing things; I was.

Sorry,

Twayne

Olórin wrote:
Twayne wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:
"Twayne" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open
they are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example
'18 Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their
currently defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled)
please? Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

Looks like no one knows. I don't either, but I can suggest an
alternative. Try Mozilla's FireFox 3 web browser. It uses tabs,
you can save a group of links at once, and go back later and open
all the links listed in a; group. If IE can do it, I've never
figured out how.


Thanks Twayne, but I don't know why you think FF can do it?

Not sure why you'd phrase a question like that; have you had trouble
with it?

snip

I suspect because the question was about folders in Windows Explorer,
not web browsers. Try opening a local folder in IE and up pops
Windows Explorer. Does the same happen with Firefox?

Ah, yes, you are quite right. Got a brain twist there I guess. No
wonder it sounded like I was confusing things; I was.

Sorry,

Twayne

Terry,
The simple answer to your original post is that there is no way that
Windows can do this. The function of which you speak is simply not there.
Windows does similar things like arranging the folders, under a single group
on the taskbar, into "tiled horizontally" and "tiled vertically" but not
"restore all" - which is what, if I'm right, you wanted it to do. However,
the closest thing I can come up with is: if you were to minimise all open
Windows all at once by clicking on the "Show desktop" button, then if you
click on the grouped button all the windows do go back to their original
sizes. This is weak, I know, but if you want something to do this properly,
then you will have to search for a third-party application to do this,
--

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.


"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
...
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open they
are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example '18
Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their currently
defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled) please?

Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry,
The simple answer to your original post is that there is no way that
Windows can do this. The function of which you speak is simply not there.
Windows does similar things like arranging the folders, under a single group
on the taskbar, into "tiled horizontally" and "tiled vertically" but not
"restore all" - which is what, if I'm right, you wanted it to do. However,
the closest thing I can come up with is: if you were to minimise all open
Windows all at once by clicking on the "Show desktop" button, then if you
click on the grouped button all the windows do go back to their original
sizes. This is weak, I know, but if you want something to do this properly,
then you will have to search for a third-party application to do this,
--

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.


"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
...
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I have XP configured so that if I have more than 3 folders open they
are grouped into a single taskbar entry, labeled for example '18
Windows Explorer'.

Is there any way I can open all of these at once, in their currently
defined sizes & positions (not cascaded or tiled) please?

Doing so individually is very slow.

No one with any solution to this please?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

"Tim Meddick" wrote:

Terry,
The simple answer to your original post is that there is no way that
Windows can do this. The function of which you speak is simply not there.
Windows does similar things like arranging the folders, under a single group
on the taskbar, into "tiled horizontally" and "tiled vertically" but not
"restore all" - which is what, if I'm right, you wanted it to do. However,
the closest thing I can come up with is: if you were to minimise all open
Windows all at once by clicking on the "Show desktop" button, then if you
click on the grouped button all the windows do go back to their original
sizes. This is weak, I know, but if you want something to do this properly,
then you will have to search for a third-party application to do this,

Thanks Tim. I've done it with a macro. One minor and rather baffling
issue is that just *one* of the many windows restored somehow gets
hidden by another application open. But overall it cuts the mustard.

I may try an alternative macro that emulates clicking on each of the
entries in the group, but that's going to be tricky, not least in
first locating the group's position in the taskbar.

Omission of the facility seems an obvious Windows design flaw to me!

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

"Tim Meddick" wrote:

Terry,
The simple answer to your original post is that there is no way that
Windows can do this. The function of which you speak is simply not there.
Windows does similar things like arranging the folders, under a single group
on the taskbar, into "tiled horizontally" and "tiled vertically" but not
"restore all" - which is what, if I'm right, you wanted it to do. However,
the closest thing I can come up with is: if you were to minimise all open
Windows all at once by clicking on the "Show desktop" button, then if you
click on the grouped button all the windows do go back to their original
sizes. This is weak, I know, but if you want something to do this properly,
then you will have to search for a third-party application to do this,

Thanks Tim. I've done it with a macro. One minor and rather baffling
issue is that just *one* of the many windows restored somehow gets
hidden by another application open. But overall it cuts the mustard.

I may try an alternative macro that emulates clicking on each of the
entries in the group, but that's going to be tricky, not least in
first locating the group's position in the taskbar.

Omission of the facility seems an obvious Windows design flaw to me!

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi Terry,
No problem! I'm glad you sorted something out, although,
I'm sorry that I could not be of more help to you.
--

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.


"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
...
"Tim Meddick" wrote:

Terry,
The simple answer to your original post is that there is no way
that
Windows can do this. The function of which you speak is simply not there.
Windows does similar things like arranging the folders, under a single
group
on the taskbar, into "tiled horizontally" and "tiled vertically" but not
"restore all" - which is what, if I'm right, you wanted it to do.
However,
the closest thing I can come up with is: if you were to minimise all open
Windows all at once by clicking on the "Show desktop" button, then if you
click on the grouped button all the windows do go back to their original
sizes. This is weak, I know, but if you want something to do this
properly,
then you will have to search for a third-party application to do this,

Thanks Tim. I've done it with a macro. One minor and rather baffling
issue is that just *one* of the many windows restored somehow gets
hidden by another application open. But overall it cuts the mustard.

I may try an alternative macro that emulates clicking on each of the
entries in the group, but that's going to be tricky, not least in
first locating the group's position in the taskbar.

Omission of the facility seems an obvious Windows design flaw to me!

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi Terry,
No problem! I'm glad you sorted something out, although,
I'm sorry that I could not be of more help to you.
--

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.


"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
...
"Tim Meddick" wrote:

Terry,
The simple answer to your original post is that there is no way
that
Windows can do this. The function of which you speak is simply not there.
Windows does similar things like arranging the folders, under a single
group
on the taskbar, into "tiled horizontally" and "tiled vertically" but not
"restore all" - which is what, if I'm right, you wanted it to do.
However,
the closest thing I can come up with is: if you were to minimise all open
Windows all at once by clicking on the "Show desktop" button, then if you
click on the grouped button all the windows do go back to their original
sizes. This is weak, I know, but if you want something to do this
properly,
then you will have to search for a third-party application to do this,

Thanks Tim. I've done it with a macro. One minor and rather baffling
issue is that just *one* of the many windows restored somehow gets
hidden by another application open. But overall it cuts the mustard.

I may try an alternative macro that emulates clicking on each of the
entries in the group, but that's going to be tricky, not least in
first locating the group's position in the taskbar.

Omission of the facility seems an obvious Windows design flaw to me!

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK